Go 1.9

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 15:44 +0000, bpr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 13:24:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Go gets parallel compilation, at last, and better garbage 
> > collection. The former is not a problem for D, but the latter…
> > 
> > <probably-a-troll-but-still-worth-saying-that-gc-can-change/>
> 
> It should also be noted that, even though it's still a research 
> project, Scala native just recently upgraded it's Boehm GC to an 
> Immix based one. Scala native would be yet another language 
> competing with D, and might compete in even more domains than Go 
> would.

I'd be more bothered by Kotlin native that Scala native. 

Scala did a lot for the JVM in terms of getting "functional" accepted as a
word that wasn't a swear word. However it is a very complicated language.
Kotlin is a great "half way house" in replacing Java but not being as
complicated as Scala but with the same "functional objects" approach that
Scala started and championed. Scala trieed as yet.d to be and now Kotlin has
become the language of choice for the discerning JVM-oriented Android
developer.

With Kotlin Native now announced and going great guns, it may be that C++,
D, Rust, and Go, get a challenge that Scala Native has not managed.

I suspect though that like Go took Python more than C folk, Kotlin Native
will take more Java that C++, Go and Rust folks. But speculation rarely turn
out quite as speculated.

-- 
Russel.
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